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1) Describe the challenges faced by US Customs and Border Protection agents attempting to secure the border. Be sure to include:
What is the functional equivalent of the border?

What is the Fourth amendment exception as it pertains to border searches?

How are seizure statistics used to justify the mission of border security?

There are many challenges that the US Customs and border protection agents face when it comes to securing the border. One main challenge that the Customs and border protection agents face is dealing with the fourth admendment right on search and seizures. When an agent stops someone at the border from crossing into the United States the Agent has to make sure they do everything by the book because they do not want t , , , ,

Can you please provide an example of a type of special program that a company would offer to help motivate it’s employees outside of bonus, earned paid time off or dress down day? The goal is to increase productivity and ultimately the profitability of the company.

Expert Answer

The employee needs to be rewarded. This reward could be intrinsic or extrinsic.

Management at your agricultural chemicals corporation has been dissatisfied with production planning. Production plans are created using best guesses of demand for each product, which are based on how much of each product has been ordered in the past. If a customer places an unexpected order or requests a change to an existing order after it has been placed, there is no way to adjust production plans. The company may have to tell customers it can’t fill their orders, or it may run up extra costs maintaining additional inventory to prevent stock-outs. At the end of each month, orders are totaled and manually keyed into the company’s production planning system. Data from the past month’s production and inventory systems are manually entered into the firm’s order management system. Analysts from the sales department and from the production department analyze the data from their respective systems to determine what the sales targets and production targets should be for the next month. These estimates are usually different. The analysts then get together at a high-level planning meeting to revise the production and sales targets to take into account senior management’s goals for market share, revenues, and profits. The outcome of the meeting is a finalized production master schedule. The entire production planning process takes 17 business days to complete. Nine of these days are required to enter and validate the data. The remaining days are spent developing and reconciling the production and sales targets and finalizing the production master schedule.

Can you please provide an example of a type of special program that a company would offer to help motivate it’s employees outside of bonus, earned paid time off or dress down day? The goal is to increase productivity and ultimately the profitability of the company.

Expert Answer

The employee needs to be rewarded. This reward could be intrinsic or extrinsic.